WEBVTT ARI: THIS IS AN INCREDIBLESTORY.THERE IS STILL EVIDENCE FROMTHIS FIRE ON THE DRIVEWAY.THE WOMAN WHO LIVES HERE WASSTANDING HERE THIS AFTERNOONHOLDING HER TWO-YEAR-OLD NEPHEW,SCREAMING FOR HELP THINKING HERMOTHER WAS GOING TO DIE.THAT IS WHEN A GOOD SAMARITAN, ANEIGHBOR, STEPPED IN.THIS HOME ON 57TH STREET IN WESTPALM BEACH IS BADLY DAMAGED,CHARRED WALLS, EVERYTHINGSTAINED BY SMOKE.BUT THE FAMILY OF SIX WHO LIVESHERE IS GRATEFUL, BECAUSE THEYKNOW THIS COULD HAVE BEEN SOMUCH WORSE.>> A GODSEND.I DON'T KNOW WHAT WOULD HAVEHAPPENED.ARI: LINDA ZAMMIELLO IS TALKINGABOUT HER NEIGHBOR, A MAN SHEBARELY KNOWS, WHO RAN INTO HERBURNING HOME TO RESCUE HER96-YEAR-OLD MOTHER.THIS ALL STARTED AROUND 1:30TUESDAY AFTERNOON.ZAMMIELLO WAS TAKING A NAP ONTHE COUCH.>> I HEARD MY MOM STARTSSCREAMING, FIRE.ARI: ZAMMIELLO WOKE UP AND SAYSALL SHE COULD SEE WAS SMOKE, THEDRYER WAS ON FIRE.>> I PULLED A BLANKET OUT OF THEDRYER, AND FIRE.ARI: ZAMMIELLO GRABBED HERTWO-YEAR-OLD NEPHEW AND RAN, BUTHER MOTHER IS NOT ABLE TO WALK.SHE WAS TRAPPED.ZAMMIELLO STOOD IN FRONT OF THEHOUSE SCREAMING FOR HELP, ANDTHAT IS WHERE PAOLINO NOLA COMESIN.>> FRANTICALLY YELLING.I SAW SMOKE COMING OUT OF THEHOUSE.SHE SAID HER MOTHER WAS STILL INTHERE SO I RAN IN AND TRY TO GETHER OUT.ARI: NOLA WAS ABLE TO FIND THEELDERLY WOMAN BUT COULDN'T GETHER OUT.>> SHE WOULDN'T GET OUT.SHE WAS ALL FRANTIC.ARI: THAT'S WHEN FIREFIGHTERSARRIVED AND CARRIED THE WOMANFROM THE HOME.NOLA KNOWS HE RISKED HIS LIFERUNNING INTO A BURNING HOME BUTSAYS HE'D DO IT AGAIN.>> SOMEONE COULD HAVE DIED.WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS.I WANT TO TRY TO SAVE SOMEONE IFI CAN.ARI: THAT IS WHAT IS LEFT OF THEDRYER THAT STARTED THE FIRE.THE FAMILY TELLS ME THEY HAVEBEEN TOLD THEY CANNOT GO BACKINSIDE, CANNOT LIVE HERE FOR ATLEAST THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS, SOTHEY HAVE SET UP A GOFUNDMEACCOUNT.IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP WEHAVE PUT A LINK TO THE ACCOUNTON WPBF.COM.

Paolino Nola got off the bus in front of his West Palm Beach home Tuesday afternoon and immediately noticed his neighbor standing outside, screaming for help.

Then he noticed the neighbor’s house was on fire.

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“She was frantically yelling. I saw smoke coming out of the house and she said her mother was still in there so I just ran in there and tried to get her out,” Nola said in an exclusive interview with WPBF 25 News.

The neighbor, Linda Zammiello, said she was asleep on her couch on 57th St. around 1:30 when her mom woke her up.

“I hear my mom start screaming, ‘Fire, fire, fire,’” Zammiello said.

Zammiello said she sat up and all she could see was thick, black smoke throughout the house. She then noticed the dryer was on fire.

“I pulled out the blanket from the dryer and then the fire, the fire just went up,” she said.

Zammiello grabbed her two-year-old nephew and ran out of the house. But Zammiello’s mother will be 97 years old next week and is no longer able to walk. She was trapped inside.

“The smoke was really intense. I could hardly breathe myself,” Nola said. “So she was on the couch and I saw she had a walker so I tried grabbing the walker closer to her. She wouldn't get up. She was all frantic.”

Nola said as he was trying to figure out how he would get the woman out of the burning house, firefighters showed up and were able to carry her out.

“God sent him. He's a godsend,” Zammiello said of Nola. “Because if it wasn't for God who sent him to help us, I don't know what would have happened. I probably would have lost my mom.”

“Someone could have died!” Nola said when he was asked why he would risk his life. “We're human beings. I want to try to save someone if I can.”

The home was severely damaged by the fire. Zammiello said she’s been told she and her family will have to find somewhere else to live for at least the next several months.